Monday, March 30, 2015

Bracelet of the Day: Silky Stacker - Ivory Copper

SILKY STACKER

11/0 seed beads Toho "Transparent Montana Gold Luster" (204)

8/0 seed beads Toho "Transparent Montana Gold Luster" (204)

Silky beads "Ivory Copper"

SuperDuo beads "Crystal Bronze Copper"

Here is one more Silky Stacker made with Deborah Roberti's free pattern. You can download the PDF file HERE. I also made a pair of matching earrings using my free Silky Deco Earrings pattern, which you can download HERE.

The pale, coppery bronze seed beads that I used are kind of unusual. I first saw them in a free seed bead mix sample that I received with an order from Artbeads.com. I really liked that color so I asked them what they were so that I could buy some. They wouldn't tell me but I accidentally got a clue one day when I held them up to a bright light. I discovered that they're actually transparent blue (Montana) beads with a bronze luster coating on them. They really look metallic in normal light. I managed to track down some 8/0 and 11/0 beads in that color but I still need to find them in 15/0. I got the 8/0's from Artbeads and the 11/0's from Aura Crystals. Charlene's Beads also has them in 11/0 on THIS page. She calls them "Bronze Mint - 11-319O" with a note that they're actually Toho #204.

4 comments:

I got some of those Transparent Montana Gold Luster in size 11/0. They are beautiful! Do you find that they are a lot bigger than other size 11/0 seed beads, though? Mine are and I wonder if they really are size 11/0.

I have noticed that, Deb, but not just with that color. Toho's 11/0 seed beads tend to be larger/fatter than Miyuki's in general. Sometimes that's nice and sometimes it's not such a good thing.

I found some 15/0's in that color this morning at Lima Beads and ordered a small tube of them along with some 3mm druks in colors I hadn't seen before. I find that Toho's 15/0's tend to be poorly shaped compared to Miyuki's but I like having all three sizes in my "metals".